Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres

Re:Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres by whitepoplar on Friday August 18, 2017 @02:01PM (#15048372)

Thanks for making this! To someone who's unfamiliar with Postgres tooling, what's the difference between WAL-G and Barman? What're the advantages of using one over the other?

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Re:Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres by fdr on Friday August 18, 2017 @02:07PM (#15048428)

I was kafkes's guide on this project, and the WAL-E author and maintainer...

I'd say the differences between WAL-G and Barman are similar to WAL-E and Barman, which comes up relatively frequently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13573481

In summary, WAL-E is simpler program all around that focuses on cloud storage, barman does more around inventories of backups and file-based backups and configuring Postgres. There are integrative downsides to its span. WAL-E also happens to predate Barman.

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Re:Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres by ibotty on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:00PM (#15049283)

WAL-G (and WAL-E) are expected to run next to the main database, while barman is to be run on a separate machine. Barman can also backup many databases. It is essentially the difference between a central backup service and local backups.

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